Political Quotes

“Madam President, when, in the course of time, America should find a President in the Oval Office who chooses to bring the police tactics of dictators around the world to the streets of America, then that is the moment it is incumbent on every Member of this Chamber, who has sworn an oath to our Constitution, who is determined to practice civil rights of America, to stand up and say: Not now, not here, not ever, and we put an end to it. That is why I brought forth this amendment--the Stop Secret Policing in America amendment--and ask for it to be debated on this bill, because it involves police powers, military powers of the United States of America, and it is happening right now. What am I talking about? Well, let me give you some sense of what we have seen on the streets of America in the past few days--as I note here, authoritarian governments, not democratic republics, and unmarked authorities at the protests. Well, this is what we saw: Customs and Border Protection in military uniform, in combat camouflage, in the streets, no marking what the organization is and no unique identifier. The head of the CBP said: No, no. They had markings and unique identifiers. But here they are. And to make it even worse, they look a whole lot like protesters from the far right who come to make trouble, dressed in camouflage, and they actually have things that look more like badges than the actual representatives of Customs and Border Protection. What else did we see?…”